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The sheer scale of humanitarian suffering over-stretched OCHA as well as responders across the humanitarian community.
While working in five level-three emergencies in the Central African Republic, Iraq, South Sudan, Syria, and Yemen as well as in two sudden onset natural disasters in Nepal and...

As the number of people in need of humanitarian assistance worldwide grows, humanitarian agencies will again rely on resources from the Central Emergency Response Fund (CERF) to respond to crises in 2015.
CERF will hold its annual pledging conference on 17 December in New York. The aim is to raise US$450...

Fadzai Tshuma was woken by her neighbours’ screaming in the early hours of 3 February. Awake and in a panic, she then heard the sound of water rushing through her village and into her home.
“I realized it was futile to try and save my property, so I focused on making sure my children and I...

The launch of a new World Humanitarian Summit website kicks off two years of intensive outreach in the lead up to the 2016 global gathering in Istanbul, Turkey.
The website – www.worldhumanitariansummit.org– marks an important public step in a process that seeks to redefine the way that...

Every day we hear and read about the scale and impact of humanitarian crises around the world: Millions of people have been affected by the deteriorating crisis in Syria, families continue to flee violence in the Central African Republic and, most recently, more than 4 million people were made...